My state school isn’t great but I have plenty of safety choices in place that could provide me merit scholarships</p>
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How about for Penn?</p>
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Yes, only Stanford seems worth my time to apply to considering the long distance. I also don’t have the affinity for California that many other students have.</p>
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Nah, I’ve visited some but I doubt I would be happy at such small colleges</p>
<p>As for posts asking if I would be happy at UPenn, the answer is a definite yes both academically (Ivy League, what more can I say?) and socially (many good friends attend Penn already).</p>
<p>In the Daily Pennsylvanian, their was an article in the winter that had a graph of the early decision acceptance rates at all of the ivies for the class of 2014. Penn accepted around 31% of the early decision applicants this year. The lowest it has been I believe is 28%, and for the class of 2013 it was around 32%. This year, they accepted about 40 more people early than usual, but there was an increase in the number of applicants from last year.</p>
<p>Alright. By the way, are official campus visits recorded for the admissions committee? For example, will admission officers ask, “So did this kid take an official tour of the campus?” I ask this question knowing that Penn is apprehensive about accepting applicants who will simply hurt their yield and thus their US News ranking.</p>
<p>Can an unofficial visit to UPenn be as valid?</p>